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Gang of Eight

Soviet committee

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Soviet coup of 1991

  • Boris Yeltsin and the collapse of the Soviet Union
    In collapse of the Soviet Union: Aftermath of the coup

    The “gang of eight” had not grasped that democratization had made public opinion important and that the population would no longer meekly obey orders from above. The plotters, almost all ethnic Russians, represented the interests of the military-industrial complex.

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